The University of Maine has launched Learning With AI, an initiative to help faculty and students adapt to an educational landscape transformed by generative AI like ChatGPT and DALLE. Originally convened by UMaine’s New Media program and the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL), the initiative has quickly gathered contributors from across the […]
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The annual Penobscot River Educational Partnership (PREP) virtual conference this year is dedicated to the late Betsy Webb, longtime Bangor School Department superintendent and Libra Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development. Webb was executive director of PREP from 2020 until she passed away last November. UMaine is a higher […]
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John Bear Mitchell, lecturer of Wabanaki studies and outreach and student development coordinator at the University of Maine Wabanaki Center, was featured on Indian Country Today discussing new initiatives aimed at better preparing teachers to teach Wabanaki studies. Red Lake Nation News shared the ICT report.
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Lauren Jacobs, lecturer in outdoor leadership at the College of Education and Human Development, was featured in a magazine cover story by Gould Academy discussing her career in outdoor education and leadership.
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Athletic trainers help both athletes and non-athletes recover from injuries and get back in the game, and their services are in high demand. Job opportunities in athletic training have been growing rapidly in recent years, and so too have the places in which athletic trainers work. The University of Maine has long offered a bachelor’s […]
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Editor’s note: Story updated with livestream link. Nationally recognized sexuality professor, therapist and author Sandra Caron is the 2023 inductee into the Maine Women’s Hall of Fame. Caron, a longtime professor of family relations and human sexuality at the University of Maine, joins an esteemed list of honorees, starting with Sen. Margaret Chase Smith in […]
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Sandra Caron, professor of family relations and sexuality at the University of Maine, is the 2023 inductee into the Maine Women’s Hall of Fame. The Maine Women’s Hall of Fame recognizes those whose achievements have had a significant statewide impact, significantly improved the lives of women in Maine, and contributed an enduring value for women. […]
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The American Council on Education featured a story on how the University of Maine partners with the Maine Department of Labor’s Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR) to provide a five-week learning experience called Step Up, to help prepare high school students and recent graduates on the autism spectrum to successfully transition to college.
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The Bangor Daily News, Republican Journal, Fiddlehead Focus and CentralMaine.com shared that the annual S-T-R-E-T-C-H Your Teaching Workshop, a low-cost professional development program for all preK to 12 educators, will be held March 18 at the Hutchinson Center in Belfast. Register online or by contacting Donna Kennison, mimiken7@gmail.com.
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News Center Maine, Mainebiz and the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel featured the induction of Sandra Caron, University of Maine professor of family relations and human sexuality, into the Maine Women’s Hall of Fame. Caron is scheduled to be inducted in a ceremony at 2 p.m. March 18, in the Farber Forum in Jewett Hall […]
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